Word: paint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans have been growing anxious, however, almost clamorous, to step into the Louvre, when they make the grand tour, and see at least one canvas on which the paint has been applied by fingers born in America. Last week the Louvre announced that Americans have only to go into the Salle des Etats and see -But what matters it if this famed Whistler hangs in the Louvre or not? In nearly every 100% American home a reproduction of it already hangs. The lady of the house turns to the admiring guest saying: "That lovely one on the left...
Sometimes the impression was made by placing the human hand against a surface and painting around it and between the fingers. In other cases the red paint was daubed over the hand of the artist and that slapped against a wall...
...these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the immensity of nature that one can conceive, within the bounds of this epitome of an atom. He may see an infinity of universes each with its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world...
Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...
Once, it is told, she painted with her own hands all the furniture in the antechamber of Their Majesties' bedroom a bright and cheerful green. Characteristically, Wilhelm chanced to return, 48 hours before he was expected from the particular little journey which had given the Kaiserin this opportunity to please him. He returned in the night and with a sufficiently bad cold not to notice the smell of fresh paint. Flinging his clothes upon a chair in the anteroom, he donned his night garments, sat down for a moment upon another chair, slipped within the snowy Imperial sheets...